La Cosa In Cima Alle Scale

A quality-oriented pre-production.

Just after completing the script, the casting and crew recruitment started. We need all the support from young yet excited professionals and actors, to make the short looks cool.

Location Scouting sessions took us to find an old abandoned restaurant.
The place was a marvelous stage for our story (and, incidentally, a logistic nightmare!).

Michele saw the good performance of Gianluca D'Ercole in a recent movie. So he draw the script thinking of him.

Gianluca was extremely involved in the project from the very beginning.

Day after day, the team growed up.

The web and a detailed storyboard. Enough for an easy team collaboration.

With more than thirty technical roles covered it was vital finding a way to collaborate in the most productive way possible. From start we decided to publish a collaborative portal (based on Basecamp) to offer a common place for task and document sharing among all the professionals involved.

After that, we drew a shot-by-shot storyboard. This allow us to speak the same language and to avoid the vast majority of incomprehensions derived by time and place distances.

Ten days (and a dusk till dawn night) of production.

Principal photography started on 26th of April and finished on 6th of May. To be honest, the last take was at 06:30 AM of 7th of May.
Five different locations, spanning from the Aeroporto delle Marche to the small town of Belvedere Ostrense who take care of us for more than two days (and one night).
Two scene with more than 120 extras, 20 takes a day, more than 25 people on set and 15 complex CGI-integrated shots.

An independent production with no-frills. An hard work, but an incredible experience.

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